Solasta's EA was about half of the game. BG3's EA is probably about 1/4th-1/3rd of the game as far as anyone knows. Only one throws teleporting AoE spitting spiders at you at level 3-4, and it isn't the one with an EA phase that ran for half the game.
Compared to the ease of most encounters (btw, with no barrels), the spider fight was the most interesting. Different strokes, for different folks. It is also a perfect example of coming across a difficult enemy, in any zone. This is not a "level by zone" game like WoW. If you go in the wrong cave, you can run into a monster that can kick your ass, personally, I like that.
